“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden...(展开全部)

“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden...(展开全部)

The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landcscape. In this new biography, based on a rexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full ninteeth-century context.

罗伯特·D. 理查德森（Robert D. Richardson, Jr.） 出生于1934年，美国历史学家、传记作家，哈佛大学博士，出生于美国威斯康星州密尔沃基市，曾在梭罗的出生地康科德生活过。曾于1990年获得古根海姆奖，于2007年获得美国历史学界最高奖班克罗夫特奖，并获得过美国历史学家协会颁发的帕克曼奖等。代表作《梭罗传：心灵人生》《爱默生传：灵感迸发》等。

Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with ...(展开全部)

大卫·爱登堡，英国广播公司（BBC）电视节目主持人、制作人。他不仅是一位杰出的自然博物学家，还是勇敢无畏的探险家和旅行家，他被认为是有史以来旅行路程最长的人，几乎亲身探索过地球上已知的所有生态环境。他还被誉为“自然纪录片之父”，制作了“生命三部曲”、《地球脉动》等多部享誉全球的纪录片。1985 年，大卫·爱登堡被授封为爵士；2005年，爱登堡获颁皇室功绩勋章。大卫爵士还是大英博物馆和皇家植物园的托管人、皇家鸟类保护学会副总裁和皇家自然保护学会主席。

Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, it is now reissued in paperback, in response to increased interest in Hume. E. C. Mossner was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. 'Mossner's work is a quite remarkable scholarly achievement; it will be an ind...(展开全部)

Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, it is now reissued in paperback, in response to increased interest in Hume. E. C. Mossner was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. 'Mossner's work is a quite remarkable scholarly achievement; it will be an ind...(展开全部)

大卫·爱登堡，英国广播公司（BBC）电视节目主持人、制作人。他不仅是一位杰出的自然博物学家，还是勇敢无畏的探险家和旅行家，他被认为是有史以来旅行路程最长的人，几乎亲身探索过地球上已知的所有生态环境。他还被誉为“自然纪录片之父”，制作了“生命三部曲”、《地球脉动》等多部享誉全球的纪录片。1985 年，大卫·爱登堡被授封为爵士；2005年，爱登堡获颁皇室功绩勋章。大卫爵士还是大英博物馆和皇家植物园的托管人、皇家鸟类保护学会副总裁和皇家自然保护学会主席。

How big does a home really need to be? When Henry decides to build a cabin for himself in the woods, he gets some help and a lot of advice from his friends. But Henry, being Henry, has his own ideas, and he sets about building his house as a bird builds its nest. As he adds everything he thinks his cabin needs, Henry's new home ends up being a lot bigger than it looks Inspired...(展开全部)